Cloudbusting -- Kate
Bush In Her Own Words
Reaching Out
- That was really quick, really straightforward. A walk in the park
did that one for me. I really needed one more song to kind of lift the album. I
was a bit worried that it was all sort of dark and down. I'd been getting into
walks at that time, and just came back and sat at the piano and wrote it, words
and all.
- I had this lovely conversation with someone around the time I was
about to start writing it. They were talking about this star that exploded. I
thought it was such fantastic imagery. The song was taking the whole idea of
how we cling onto things that change - we're always trying to not let things
change. I thought it was such a lovely image of people reaching up for a star, and
this star explodes. Where's it gone? It seemed to sum it all up really.
- That's kind of about how you can't hold on to anything because
everything is always changing and we all have such a terrible need to hold onto
stuff and to keep it exactly how it is, because this is nice and we don't want
it to change. But sometimes even if things aren't nice, people don't want them
to change. And things do. Just look at the natural balance of things: how if
you reach out for something, chances are it will pull away. And when things
reach out for you, the chances are you will pull away. You know
everything ebbs and flows, and you know the moon is full and then it's gone:
it's just the balance of things.
Bush suddenly catches herself at the crest of this philosophical
wave. Absolute rubbish, she pshaws, laughing. Just tell them to go buy the
record and see if they like it. (1990, Musician)
"Reaching out'' (glorious piano. Instinct is a funny
business.)
- Yes, you can't help but reach out and touch certain things even if
you think they might hurt. When
children reach out to touch parents it's a lottery as to whether they'll
get a clip round the ears or a cuddle. (1989, Tracks)
- We did a really straightforward treatment on the track; did the
piano to a clicktrack, got Charlie Morgan [Elton john's drummer] to come
in and do the drums, Del did the bass, and
Michael Nyman came in to do the strings. I told him it had to have a sense of
uplifting, and I really like his stuff - the rawness of his strings. It's a bit
like a fuzzbox touch - quite 'punk'. I find that very attractive - he wrote it
very quickly. I was very pleased. (1989, International Musician)
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